Gopher hunting / 10/22
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Replace the stock, the factory ones are crap. If you keep the stock, you need a sling stud, they're about $3 to buy, screw it in then attach your bipod. The barrel band is a waste of time, remove it as well.
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TDC
I have to agree with the other posters on your question. You have to knock on doors for permission (I know first hand this can be hard). If you are young (under 25) you might have a harder time than us "old folk". If you do get permission remember to do your best to pick up your brass, don't shoot rapid fire (one sure way to be asked to leave) and if you can, a good way of saying thank-you is a case of beer or bottle of hard stuff for the old farmer. A gent who gave me permission to hunt deer on his property asked for a bit of meat if I was successful. I was, and I gave him a quarter of my kill, cut and wrapped. I asked him if I could come back and take care of his coyotes, he said yes (the sooner the better), and he said I was welcome again next fall as well. Good luck, I hope you find a place to shoot.
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Just be aware some are more sympathetic to your cause than others. If it helps, think about who YOU'd be useful to, not just vice-versa. Many folks with animals despise the holes that the prairie-hounds leave in fields, for example, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Remember, selling is a life-skill, and it also applies to selling others on your ideas. Make it seem like it was the owner's own thought to hire you, a dreaded deadeye gopher-shot, to rid them of the varmints...for free!
RE: Bipod
I have a 10/22 all weather that was my dad's. What he did was remove the stock and epoxied a hunk of wood inside. I cannot remeber if he hollowed it out any to do so. With the wood firmly glued in, he screwed in a swivel stud behind the bbl band, just enough that a harris bipod would fit behind. Was solid and is still there, the only problem being that now he's got the bipod and I got a Ruger with a fungly looking hole in it
I have a 10/22 all weather that was my dad's. What he did was remove the stock and epoxied a hunk of wood inside. I cannot remeber if he hollowed it out any to do so. With the wood firmly glued in, he screwed in a swivel stud behind the bbl band, just enough that a harris bipod would fit behind. Was solid and is still there, the only problem being that now he's got the bipod and I got a Ruger with a fungly looking hole in it
I agree that you have to knock on doors and get permission to shoot on others land. And if you get permision to do it once don't assume you can go again without asking. Farmers rotate cattle into diffrent pastures and a pasture thats safe to shoot in one day may not be the next day.
But now the good news. Since alot of farmers dislike gophers they may even supply you with the ammunition. I wouldn't expect this on your first time onto their land but if you keep returning, and he knows you don't waste ammunition he may buy the ammunition for you
(example) I met the farmer who own the land we usually shoot on the road to his place. He gave us afew boxes of amunition and even went so far as to offer us the use of his truck if we didn't want to use out 1/4 ton truck in his rough pastures to shoot gophers. Most farmers are very appreciative that you are helping them with a problem. And if one pasture you are shooting in is running low on gophers after you cleaned it out just ask for if he has another one for you to shoot in.
But now the good news. Since alot of farmers dislike gophers they may even supply you with the ammunition. I wouldn't expect this on your first time onto their land but if you keep returning, and he knows you don't waste ammunition he may buy the ammunition for you
(example) I met the farmer who own the land we usually shoot on the road to his place. He gave us afew boxes of amunition and even went so far as to offer us the use of his truck if we didn't want to use out 1/4 ton truck in his rough pastures to shoot gophers. Most farmers are very appreciative that you are helping them with a problem. And if one pasture you are shooting in is running low on gophers after you cleaned it out just ask for if he has another one for you to shoot in.
